Books from Baseball Direct bring you stories of great players and great teams and inspire you with baseball’s history of sportsmanship and showmanship. We have Biographies, Team Histories, and Miscellaneous which contains everything else.
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Falling in Love with Baseball
$29.95A collection of memories of Chris Mavraedis, who has loved baseball and the San Francisco Giants since he was a boy. Battling Lou Gehrig’s Disease since 2009, Mavraedis began writing and translated ...
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Gil Hodges: The Quiet Man
$14.99A tribute to one of baseball's great men of character, Gil Hodges, the slugging first baseman for the Brooklyn Dodgers. Hodges hit 370 home runs in his career and as a manager, led the New York Mets t...
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Harry the K
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$14.95 $9.95To Philadelphia Phillies fans, Harry Kalas was the soundtrack of summer. To millions of football fans across America, he was the Voice of the NFL. Written from more than 160 interviews--from childhood...
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How Baseball Explains America
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$24.95 $9.95Examining the connection between baseball and our society as a whole, longtime USA Today columnist Hal Bodley explores just how essential baseball is to understanding the American experience. The book...
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Tales from the Mets Dugout
$15.95From the earliest days in 1962 through the modern era, Tales from the Mets Dugout offers a wide range of stories that capture the many moods of an ever-changing franchise. Written by veteran baseball ...
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Tales from the Orioles Dugout
$19.95by Louis Berney. Thirty-six former players, from Billy O'Dell to Cal Ripken Jr., share their stories in this anecdotal history of five decades of Oriole baseball. Hardcover, 202 pages.
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The Shift
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$19.95 $9.95With its three hour contests, 162-game seasons, and countless measurable variables, baseball is a sport which lends itself to self-reflection and obsessive analysis. It’s a thinking game. It’s a...
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When Life Grabs You by the Baseballs
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$14.95 $9.95Jon Peters seemed to have it all. He was on the cover of Sports Illustrated as a high school pitcher. He was going to play professional baseball until a shoulder injury and four surgeries changed hi...
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Worth the Wait
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$19.95 $9.95by Jayson Stark For 25 years, Philadelphia waited for a team like the 2008 Phillies to come along. Waited for a team that could end the longest title drought of any city in America that fields teams ...